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Most of us know very little about the Dealer Auction Company Manheim. But, they are doing a great job promoting innovation not only for them & Cox (their parent company) but also the development community as a whole in Atlanta. I was impressed with their blending of professional development and partnership with Atlanta Fullstack. “As always this blog is more for my sanity than you.”

Style Injection

React‘s use of JSX a format that through transpilers such as Babel has allowed us to embedded our HTML into our JavaScript has opened the doors to even more componentization in our apps. Now, the idea is slowly gaining traction to also place our CSS in components as well. (You can find a link to the presentation here). I like the idea of continuing to build components (when you can) that are compartmentalized with all of the pieces of the puzzle in one place (as long as that puzzle is nice and simple). A few frameworks mentioned were:

I think it is awesome that a large company is thinking about developing talent rather than hunting it down. It makes sense for Manheim, they are a Rails organization (I think) which means (and I’m stereotyping) that many of the potential developers they are going to attract are not from a traditional CS background (I think of bootcamps), it allows them to cultivate quality talent on a trial basis, it takes HR out of the equation. I could not find a link to their fall program but here is one to this summers application.